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In this chapter we turn to the major mechanism for transporting newly synthesized products from the nucleus to other intracellular compartments and the cell membrane. This is based on the active motor-driven transport of vesicular cargo along cytoskeletal tracks [154]. Active transport is faster and more easily regulated than passive diffusion, but requires a constant supply of energy to do useful work.
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Bressloff, P.C. (2021). Active transport. In: Stochastic Processes in Cell Biology. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 41. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72515-0_7
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